"Was he a fair bald-headed man?"
"Of course."
I was silent. The truth was plain, the revelation a staggering one.
Winsloe had introduced his accomplice, John Parham, to me as the
traveller and engineer named Humphreys!
It was in John Parham's house that the dastardly attempt had been made
upon my life--in his house that other persons had met with mysterious
and untimely ends.